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the 28th of August to the 10th of October, 1S83. She returned 
to her kennel and was then fed with biscuit, bread and cooked 
meat. Towards January she was losing flesh and had several 
little sores on her back, but which were overlooked. In February 
she had another round wound, the size of a one-franc piece, on the 
right side over the ribs, and at last, on the 3d of March, she had 
another. None of these appeared to heal. The last was over the 
left ribs, round in form, and discharging a liquid, greyish pus. 
It was well defined, and of a diameter of two-and-a-half centime¬ 
ters. There was no discharge and no enlargement of the maxil¬ 
lary glands. 
It was then that the author thought of glanders, and her pus 
was inoculated to a guinea pig. 
The author’s conclusions are : 1st. If the disease was con¬ 
tracted while she was at the breeding farm, the period of incuba¬ 
tion had been of more than two months’ duration. 
2d. It is the second case which proves the contagiousness of 
glanders by the injection of raw meat. 
3d. In the dog glanders seems to have only a cutaneous mani¬ 
festation. 
4th. Glanders is transmissible by inoculation from the dog to 
the guinea pig. 
THE FIRST CASE OF ACTINOMYCOSIS OBSERVED IN FRANCE. 
By Me. Nooaed. 
This case is recorded in the transactions of the Societe Centrale 
de Medecine Veterinaire. In reporting it, Prof. Nocard, alluding 
to the history of the disease and to the reports upon it which 
have recently appeared in all veterinary journals, observes that, 
so far, this is the first case reported in France. He attributes 
the absence of information on the subject in that country to the 
fact that the disease, being very slow in its development, and for 
that reason not interfering with the general use for meat of the 
animals, has not affected the interests of the owners, and the 
veterinarian for that reason has not yet been appealed to to in¬ 
vestigate and remedy the evil. 
